Q: What's your background?
Bushee: My background has been in search/harvesting/collection/ingest for about 10 years with a primary emphasis on Deep Web harvesting.
Welcome to BrightPlanet
Harvesting the Deep Web...Beyond Surface Search. With more than ten years of extraction experience, BrightPlanet is the leader in harvesting "unknown and hidden" content from inaccessible Deep Web and Surface Web sources.
Interview with
William Bushee
V.P. of Development at BrightPlanet
Q: What was the trigger in your career that made search and retrieval a focal point?
Bushee: My first big trigger into search and retrieval came when we were manually building one-off scripts to federate searches across multiple Deep Web sources, a process that required multiple full-time interns to simply manage 50-100 sources.
Q: Do you have a search related project underway? If so, will you describe it?
Bushee: We like to differentiate between “surface search” and “Deep Web harvest.” One of my pet projects has always been BrightPlanet’s CompletePlanet Portal. CompletePlanet lists about 70,000 known Deep Web sources, the same sources that we have automatically configured to work with our Deep Harvester.
Recent Fact Sheets
- The Deep Web - Surface Hidden Value
- About BrightPlanet - Beyond Search
- “What is Google Missing?”
- OpenPlanet™ - Building Open Source Intelligence
In The News
BrightPlanet is looking for a Content Navigator (2010-01-26)
Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career? Check out our newly posted Content Navigator position.
Visual Analytics Embeds Advanced Text Indexing Capabilities into Visualization Tool (2010-01-07)
Visual Analytics Inc. (VAI) announced that VisuaLinks, their flagship analytical product, now fully supports Apache Lucene 3.0.0
Diving In the Deep Web (2009-12-10)
Deep Web can be helpful for investors or anyone who needs access to hidden content, check out this article recently posted on The Motley Fool.
Deep Web; Database of databases of databases…. (2009-12-08)
A new generation of entrepreneurs will collect, organize, analyze and create – not information – but data.
Mark Logic / KM World Finalist (2009-11-10)
Congratulations to our technology partner MarkLogic for getting this prestigious nomination as a finalist in the 2009 KMWorld Promise Award. Tough competition this year but I’m sure they will prevail, good luck.
Open Source Intel Use Soars (2009-10-22)
We are unable to attend Geoint this year due to scheduling overlaps. Colin has a great blog entry about the growing OSINT projects in the Intel Community, something that BrightPlanet has been strongly involved.
Alexander Karp (Palantir) on Charlie Rose talking about OSINT (2009-08-11)
A Silicon Valley company consulting with the government in a battle against terrorism.
The Virtual Private Library and Deep Web (2009-07-12)
Dailymotion Video: 99 percent of the trillions of pages on the Web are inaccessible to search engines. Learn how you can tap into this vast deep Web by using the innovative and cutting edge Virtual Private Library.
Mark Logic CEO: Harvesting Deep Web Content for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) (2009-06-24)
It must be the math puzzle guy in me, but there is something really cool about linking together a series of public information and transforming it into actionable intelligence.
Exploring a 'Deep Web' That Google Can't Grasp (2009-02-23)
New York Times: One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web.
Current Events
DIA Technology Exposition (2010-02-11)
BrightPlanet has been selected to attend the exclusive Defense Intelligence Agency Technology Exposition in February 2010.
Webinar: Why is Oracle Targeting Mark Logic? (2010-01-06)
Join our partner's Webinar on 1/6/2010 to see their reponse to Oracle's recent whitepaper attacking MarkLogic's technology and standards. See what Oracle got wrong.
CIA Technology Expo (2009-11-03)
BrightPlanet has been selected as one of 50 companies to be represented at the CIA Technology Expo on November 3rd in Langley, VA.
ISS World Americas Conference (2009-10-12 through 2009-10-14)
BrightPlanet will be presenting at the ISS World Americas conference on October 12-14, 2009 in Washington DC. Come and visit our booth!
NSA Technology Expo (2009-09-01 through 2009-09-02)
BrightPlanet will be showcased at the NSA Technology Expo, September 1 -2 at Fort Meade, Maryland.
